The US can’t use its $110 million drone base in Niger
taskandpurpose.com
The US military cannot conduct drone operations from a base in Niger because the country’s military junta has closed its airspace.

Why was it there in the first place I wonder?

  • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
    43·
    1 year ago

    Oh. My. This is quite an interesting precedent. Let’s hope we start to see more of this. A new angle on dismantling the machine.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      05·
      1 year ago

      So when all the extremists that now can’t be monitored and controlled start commiting attacks in other parts of Africa, or sneak over the med to Europe to attack there, that’s a good thing because…?

      • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
        64·
        1 year ago

        Because the US is the worst extremist in the world, killing and torturing more people, more systematically, more continuously, and with munitions that poison the land enough to kill the children and the grandchildren who will be born there for decades later.

        The US needs to be stopped.

        • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
          24·
          1 year ago

          So you’re more than happy for people to die in Africa and Europe as long as it’s done by islamic extremists, just as long as it’s not the US? Fucking bizarre mindset mate.

          • MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
            51·
            1 year ago

            After the U.S. spent the last 20 years indiscriminately killing hundreds of thousands of people (at minimum!) throughout the world under the guise of fighting Islamic extremists, it’s disgusting to trot out concern for lives as a defense of continuing the same failed policies.

          • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
            54·
            1 year ago

            Considering the number of people the US and Europe have killed in Africa is orders of magnitude higher than the number of people killed by Islamic extremists, and considering the US and Europe trained, funded, and armed many of the Islamic extremists that are causing the harm you’re so worried about, I would say it’s not bizarre at all.

            What’s bizarre is continuing to pretend that the solution to violent extremism is more violent power and military occupation by the imperialists of the continent when it was those imperialists who created the violent extremism in the first place.

            Despite what they might tell you, the US has zero interest in fixing the problems they caused. The blowback is valuable to them. They keep the cycle of violence going and it keeps generating opportunities to project their power and generate ultraprofits.